| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Craig Muller | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 June 1961 (age 62) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Mosman Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Craig Muller (born 7 June 1961) is an Australian former representative rower. He is a five time national champion and Olympic bronze medallist.
Muller's senior rowing was with the Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney. He was later made a life member of Mosman an also of Lismore Rowing Club.
He first made state selection in the 1983 New South Wales senior men's eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. [1] He made every New South Wales King's Cup crew from 1983 to 1987 [2] and rowed to Australian championship victory in that boat of 1984. [3]
In Mosman Rowing Club colours Muller competed for national titles in small sweep-oared boats at every Australian Rowing Championships from 1983 to 1987. With Steve Evans, Jim Battersby and Rick Goodrich, in an all-Mosman crew Muller won the Australian national coxed four title in 1984. In a composite Mosman/Drummoyne/Sydney crew Muller again won the national coxed four title of 1985. [4] Both crews were coached by Rusty Robertson. [5]
In 1986 Muller won the coxless pair national title racing with Steve Evans in Mosman colours [6] and then in 1987 in an Australian selection crew coached by Reinhold Batschi he won the coxless four championship title. [7]
The Australian eight selected for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was built around the national champion Mosman Rowing Club coxed four of Muller, Jim Battersby, and Steve Evans. [8] Muller was selected in the bow seat. The Australian eight finished third in the final with a time of 5:43.40 winning bronze behind Canada and the USA. [9]
Following competitive retirement Muller coached at the Adelaide Rowing Club, Mosman Rowing Club and the ACT Academy of Sport where he was manager of the rowing program. He has coached at s school level at (Loreto Normanhurst and the Scots College). In 2022 he was the rowing co-ordinator at Radford College, Adelaide. [10] For the 2023 season he rook a role as Rowing Caretaker and Boatshed Manager at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. [11]
Mosman Rowing Club is an all-level competitive and recreational rowing club on the North Shore of Sydney. Since 2007 the club's facilities have been wholly located at The Spit in Sydney's Middle Harbour, the northern arm of Port Jackson.
Tom Laurich is an Australian former rower – a junior world champion, a national champion, an Olympian and a medallist at World Championships. He has coached crews at the elite world class level.
Timothy John Willoughby was an Australian rower, yachtsman and stockbroker. He was a five-time Australian national champion rower, a dual Olympian and won a bronze medal in the Australian men's eight at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
David J. Weightman is an Australian former rower. He was a national champion and representative at World Rowing Championships, an Olympian and an Olympic silver medallist.
Ian Edmunds is an Australian former rower. He is an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a 1984 Olympic medalist.
James Stewart Battersby is an Australian former national champion and Olympic level rower.
Stephen Frederick Evans OAM is an Australian former national champion, world champion, dual Olympian and Olympic medal winning rower.
Gavin Thredgold is an Australian former rowing coxswain and coach. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and a medalist at Olympic and world championships.
Robyn Grey-Gardner is an Australian former eight-time national champion, national representative, Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winning rower. She won Australian championships in all three sweep-oared women's rowing events - the coxless pair, the coxless four and in the eight.
Graeme Keith Allan was an Australian representative rower who competed at two Olympic Games and won two Commonwealth Games medals.
Roger Arthur Ninham was an Australian Olympian stillwater rower, a surfboat rower and surfcraft boat builder. As a stillwater rower he was a six-time national champion across both sculling and sweep-oared boats and competed at two Olympic Games.
Pamela Westendorf is an Australian former representative rower. She won twenty-three Australian national championships, was an Olympian, represented at five World Championships over a twelve-year period and won a silver medal at the 1990 World Rowing Championships.
Justine Carroll is an Australian former lightweight rower. She was a three-time national champion and won a silver medal at the 1988 World Rowing Championships.
David Doyle is an Australian former rower. He was an Australian national champion and U23 world champion, an Olympian and won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships.
Kim Mackney is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. From school until the national elite representative level and onto a long world-class masters career, Mackney rowed competitively for over fifty years. He can be credited with salvaging and re-establishing the Glebe Rowing Club in Sydney after its 1992 demise.
Malcolm Campbell Shaw was a New Zealand-born, Australian representative rower. He competed for Australia at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
John Clark is an Australian former rower. He was a six-time national champion who competed at world championships and in the men's eight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Ian Luxford is an Australian former representative rower. He was a three time Australian champion who represented at world championships and competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Chris Shinners is an Australian rower. He was a six-time Australian champion who represented at world championships and competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Tim Conrad is an Australian rowing coach and former Olympian rower. He was a five time national champion and competed in the men's eight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
